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* VM won't boot into UI, press Host + F2 to get into tty session, login as username=root and password=nemo
 
* VM won't boot into UI, press Host + F2 to get into tty session, login as username=root and password=nemo
 
* Grab address of VM using ifconfig -a in virtualbox session, then ssh in using host and execute :
 
* Grab address of VM using ifconfig -a in virtualbox session, then ssh in using host and execute :
  cd /usr/lib/qt5/examples/qtwayland/qwidget-compositor;
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  cd /usr/lib/qt5/examples/qtwayland/qwidget-compositor
  QT_QPA_EGLFS_DEPTH=16 ./qwidget-compositor -platform linuxfb & ;
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  QT_QPA_EGLFS_DEPTH=16 ./qwidget-compositor -platform linuxfb &
  qmlviewer -platform linuxfb
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  qmlviewer -platform wayland

Latest revision as of 10:46, 9 February 2013

(work in progress)

Zephyr is an attempt at creating a stack for use by other projects to be exploring lightweight, high-performance, next-generation UIs based on Mer, Qt5, QML compositor and Wayland. Come to #mer on irc.freenode.net to discuss and participate.

Contents

[edit] Reference hardware

  • VirtualBox on X86, with LLVMpipe+Wayland
  • ExoPC, X86 with Intel+Wayland (TBD)
  • Raspberry Pi with QML compositor hardware integration for BRCM (TBD)

[edit] OBS projects and architecture

We're hosting on the new Mer community OBS (https://build.merproject.org )

[edit] zephyr:devel:mw

Shared middleware for Zephyr based stacks.

  • Lipstick2 (homescreen and compositor framework)

[edit] zephyr:devel:ux:breeze

Breeze is a open source, low end, QtQuick1, non-GLESv2 UX based on Zephyr middleware

[edit] zephyr:devel:ux:storm

Storm is a open source, QtQuick2, GLESv2 UX based on Zephyr middleware

[edit] zephyr:devel:hw

Zephyr-specific hardware adaptation pieces building against Zephyr middleware.

[edit] Kickstart files

Can be found through https://github.com/stskeeps/zephyr

zephyr-i586-vm.ks is for VirtualBox

Get Mer Platform_SDK to work with these.

[edit] TODO

  • VirtualBox/X86 QML compositor needs to wait properly for input devices and framebuffer devices to appear before launching and sometimes fails to start compositor 3-4 times
  • Get Harmattan QML components working on Qt5
  • Integrate Maliit on Qt5

[edit] Architecture

Zephyr is based on the Mer Core. It boots with the help of systemd user sessions. The user session is described in zephyr-session package and it launches the Zephyr compositor (based on example QML compositor from qt-wayland). The Zephyr compositor signals to systemd that it has started and wayland clients can connect to it.

[edit] Adaptation: VirtualBox

You can make a 'livecd' image (mic cr livecd -A i686 zephyr-i586-vm.ks in Platform SDK) that you can run on a virtual machine.

You will need to make a virtual machine and run this:

 VBoxManage setextradata "Mer" CustomVideoMode1 "800x480x16"

before starting first time, here "Mer" is the name of your virtual machine. Set this to your desired resolution.

[edit] Steps to create Zephyr livecd image (without OpenGL support)

sudo mic cr livecd -A i686 nogl-i586-vm.ks 

This will create iso image.

  • Boot a new VM in virtualbox with iso image, make sure VM is configured to use bridged networking in VirtualBox.
  • VM won't boot into UI, press Host + F2 to get into tty session, login as username=root and password=nemo
  • Grab address of VM using ifconfig -a in virtualbox session, then ssh in using host and execute :
cd /usr/lib/qt5/examples/qtwayland/qwidget-compositor
QT_QPA_EGLFS_DEPTH=16 ./qwidget-compositor -platform linuxfb &
qmlviewer -platform wayland
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